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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bläst, IPA^(key): /bl??st/
• (US) enPR: bl?st, IPA^(key): /blæst/
• Rhymes: -??st
• Rhymes: -æst

Etymology 1

From Middle English blast from Old English bl?st (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?staz, *bl?stuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”). More at blow.

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

2. A violent gust of wind.

   • And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.

3. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
4. A hit from a pipe.
5. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace

   many tons of iron were melted at a blast

   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146:

     Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.

6. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
7. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
8. An explosive charge for blasting.
   • 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts

     Large blasts are often used.

9. A loud, sudden sound.
   • c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field

     the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
10. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

    • By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
11. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.

    We had a blast at the party last night.

12. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.

    an e-mail blast; a fax blast

13. A flatulent disease of sheep.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English bl?stan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?stijan?. Compare Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).

Verb

blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)

1. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
4. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).

   Blast right through it.

5. (transitive) To curse; to damn.

   Blast it! Foiled again.

6. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).

   Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

7. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
8. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.

   My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.

9. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
10. (transitive) To blight or wither.

    A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

11. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.

    The bud blasted in the blossom.

12. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Italian: blastare

Translations

Interjection

blast

1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment; damn

Usage notes

Can be used on its own or in the form "blast it!".

Translations

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ or sprout”).

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

1. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

Derived terms

• blast cell
• blastocyte
• blastoma

Translations

Etymology 4

From BLAST (an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

Verb

blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)

1. (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
   • 2004, Andreas Bommarius and Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, p. 425:

     Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.

Alternative forms

• BLAST

Anagrams

• Balts, blats

German

Verb

blast

1. inflection of blasen:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ, sprout”).

Noun

blast m (genitive singular blast, nominative plural blastaí)

1. (cytology) blast

Declension

Derived terms

• -blast
• blastchill (“blast cell”)

Mutation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blaste, blæst, blest

Etymology

From Old English bl?st, from Proto-Germanic *bl?stuz; equivalent to blasen +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blast/, /bl??st/

Noun

blast (plural blastes)

1. A blast; a sudden and forceful motion of wind.
2. One's breathing or respiring; the act of respiration.
3. The blast produced by a musical instrument.
4. An emission or expulsion of fire or flames.
5. The sound produced by thunder or storms.
6. (rare) The making of a pronouncement or proclamation.
7. (rare) One's spiritual essence; the soul.
8. (rare) A striking or attack.
9. (rare) Flatulence; the making of a fart.

Derived terms

• blasten

Descendants

• English: blast
• Scots: blast

References

• “blast, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-27.

Swedish

Noun

blast c (definite form blasten)

1. (uncountable) The stem and leaves of a vegetable, of which you're only supposed to eat the root. E.g. in potatoes or carrots.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”). Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

Noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

   The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

2. (countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
3. (countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
4. (medicine, countable) A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
5. (metalworking, countable) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
6. (metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

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7. (computing, countable) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

     This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

8. (Australia) A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
   • 2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, Macmillan Publishers Aus. (?ISBN), page 119:

     On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.

   • 2008, Kevin Hillier, Rocket Science: The Biography of Rodney Eade, Macmillan Publishers Aus. (?ISBN), page 151:

     Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have. It certainly worked for me, I would get really aggressive and get fired up 'cause it's a motivational device they used.

   • 2018, Paul Amy, Fabulous Fred: The Strife and Times of Fred Cook, Melbourne Books (?ISBN)

     He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says. 'He'd be frothing at the mouth after he'd finished.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

1. (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.

2. (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To project many small items dispersively.
4. (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory.
5. (transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.

   to spray the heap of a target process

   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

     This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

Derived terms

• say it, don't spray it
• sprayable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English spray, from Old English *spræg, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.

Noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

1. (countable) A small branch of flowers or berries.

   The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.
2. (countable) A collective body of small branches.

   The tree has a beautiful spray.

   • c. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. Book VII, Canto VII:

     And from the Trees did lop the needless Spray;

3. (uncountable) Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
4. (countable, obsolete) An orchard.
5. (countable) An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

Anagrams

• Prays, Sarpy, prays, raspy, spary

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spre?/
• Hyphenation: spray

Noun

spray m (plural sprays)

1. spray (liquid commercial product sold in a spray container)

Derived terms

• haarspray
• verfspray

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sprei?/, [?s?pre?i?]
• Syllabification: spray

Noun

spray

1. spray (device for spraying)

Declension

Usage notes

• Many of the inflected forms, especially the plurals, are somewhat awkward. Therefore, it may be advisable to use appropriate synonyms for these cases, such as spraypullo, spraytölkki, suihke, suihkepullo.

Synonyms

• suihke
• suihkepullo

Derived terms

• spreijata

Compounds

• spraydeodorantti
• spraymaalata
• spraymaali
• spraypullo
• spraytölkki

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• spré, szpré

Etymology

From English spray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spre?], [?spre?j], [??pre?], [??pre?j]
• Hyphenation: spray
• Rhymes: -re?, -e?j

Noun

spray (plural spray-k)

1. spray (commercial product dispensed from a container)

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spraye

Etymology

From Old English *spræg, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.

Noun

spray (plural sprayes)

1. branch, shoot, or twig of a tree

Descendants

• English: spray
• Yola: spraay

References

• “sprai, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English spray

Noun

spray m (definite singular sprayen, indefinite plural sprayer, definite plural sprayene)

1. spray

Derived terms

• hårspray
• nesespray
• sprayboks
• spraymaling

Related terms

• spraye

Etymology 2

Verb

spray

1. imperative of spraye

References

• “spray” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English spray

Noun

spray m (definite singular sprayen, indefinite plural sprayar, definite plural sprayane)

1. spray

Derived terms

• hårspray
• sprayboks

Related terms

• spraye

References

• “spray” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English spray, from Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spr?j/

Noun

spray m inan

1. aerosol spray (liquid commercial product sold in a spray container)

Declension

Further reading

• spray in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• spray in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English spray, from Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to sow, scatter”)

Noun

spray m (plural sprays)

1. spray; atomizer (pressurised container with a nozzle that lets out a spray)

   Synonyms: borrifador, atomizador, esprei, aerossol, pulverizador

2. spray (fine, gentle, disperse mist of liquid)

   Synonyms: borrifo, esprei

Romanian

Etymology

From English spray.

Noun

spray n (plural sprayuri)

1. spray

Declension

Spanish

Noun

spray m (plural sprays or spray)

1. Alternative form of espray

Further reading

• “spray” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.